Data Architect - Azure DevOps

About Kiru:

Kiru is a forward-thinking payments startup on a mission to revolutionise the digital payments landscape in Africa and beyond. Our innovative solutions will reshape how people transact, making payments safer, faster, and more accessible. Join us on our journey to redefine the future of payments.

Position Overview:

We are searching for a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our dynamic team in Pune, India. As a DevOps Engineer at Kiru, you will play a critical role in ensuring our payment infrastructure's reliability, scalability, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Utilize your expertise in technology infrastructure configuration to manage and automate infrastructure effectively.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Software Developers and technology management, to design and implement robust and efficient DevOps solutions.
• Configure and maintain a secure backend environment focusing on network isolation and VPN access.
• Implement and manage monitoring solutions like ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, or DataDog and visualisation and alerting solutions like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Work closely with developers to instrument code for visualisation and alerts, ensuring system performance and stability.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of development and deployment pipelines.
• Collaborate on the selection and implementation of appropriate DevOps tools and technologies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues promptly to minimize downtime.
• Stay up-to-date with emerging DevOps trends and best practices.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation related to DevOps processes and configurations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar role.
• Experience configuring infrastructure on Microsoft Azure
• Experience with Kubernetes as a container orchestration technology
• Experience with Terraform and Azure ARM or Bicep templates for infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Experience configuring and maintaining secure backend environments, including network isolation and VPN access.
• Proficiency in setting up and managing monitoring and visualization tools such as ZipKin, Jaeger, New Relic, DataDog, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with developers to instrument code for visualization and alerts.
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• A proactive and self-motivated approach to work.

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Services and managing identities across Azure services.
• Previous experience in a financial or payment systems environment.

About Kiru:

At Kiru, we believe that success is achieved through collaboration. We recognise that every team member has a vital role to play, and it's the partnerships we build within our organisation that drive our customers' success and our growth as a business.

We are more than just a team; we are a close-knit partnership. By bringing together diverse talents and fostering powerful collaborations, we innovate, share knowledge, and continually learn from one another. We take pride in our daily achievements but never stop challenging ourselves and supporting each other. Together, we reach new heights and envision a brighter future.

Regardless of your career journey, we provide the guidance and resources you need to thrive. You will have everything required to excel through training programs, mentorship, and ongoing support. At Kiru, your success is our success, and that success matters because we are the essential partners for the world's most critical businesses. These companies manufacture, transport, and supply the world's essential goods.

Equal Opportunities and Accommodations Statement:

Kiru is committed to fostering a workplace and global community where inclusion is celebrated and where you can bring your authentic selfbecause that's who we're interested in. If you are interested in this role but don't meet every qualification in the job description, don't hesitate to apply. We are an equal opportunity employer.

  Job Description:

We are looking to recruit engineers with zeal to learn cloud solutions using Amazon Web Services (AWS). We\'ll prefer an engineer who is passionate about AWS Cloud technology, passionate about helping customers succeed, passionate about quality and truly enjoys what they do. The qualified candidate for AWS Cloud Engineer position is someone who has a can-do attitude and is an innovative thinker.

• Be a hands on with responsibilities for the installation, configuration, and ongoing management of Linux based solutions on AWS for our clients.
• Responsible for creating and managing Autoscaling EC2 instances using VPCs, Elastic Load Balancers, and other services across multiple availability zones to build resilient, scalable and failsafe cloud solutions.
• Familiarity with other AWS services such as CloudFront, ALB, EC2, RDS, Route 53 etc. desirable.
• Working Knowledge of RDS, Dynamo DB, Guard Duty, WAF, Multi tier architecture.
• Proficient in working on Git, CI CD Pipelined, AWS Devops, Git, Bit Bucket, Ansible.
• Proficient in working on Docker Engine, Containers, Kubernetes .
• Expertise in Migration workload to AWS from different cloud providers
• Should be versatile in problem solving and resolve complex issues ranging from OS and application faults to creatively improving solution design
• Should be ready to work in rotation on a 24x7 schedule, and be available on call at other times due to the critical nature of the role
• Fault finding, analysis and of logging information for reporting of performance exceptions
• Deployment, automation, management, and maintenance of AWS cloud-based production system.
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability of AWS production systems.
• Management of creation, release, and configuration of production systems.
• Evaluation of new technology alternatives and vendor products.
• System troubleshooting and problem resolution across various application domains and platforms.
• Pre-production acceptance testing for quality assurance.
• Provision of critical system security by leveraging best practices and prolific cloud security solutions.
• Providing recommendations for architecture and process improvements.
• Definition and deployment of systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring on AWS platform.
• Designing, maintenance and management of tools for automation of different operational processes.

Desired Candidate Profile

o    Customer oriented personality with good communication skills, who is able to articulate and communicate very effectively verbally as well as in written communications.

o    Be a team player that collaborates and shares experience and expertise with the rest of the team.

o    Understands database system such as MSSQL, Mongo DB, MySQL, MariaDB, Dynamo DB, RDS.

o    Understands Web Servers such as Apache, Ningx.

o    Must be RHEL certified.

o    In depth knowledge of Linux Commands and Services.

o    Efficiency enough to manage all internet applications inclusive FTP, SFTP, Ningx Apache, MySQL, PHP.

o    Good communication skill.

o    Atleast 3-7 Years of experience in AWS and Devops.

  Company Profile:

i2k2 Networks is a trusted name in the IT cloud hosting services industry. We help enterprises with cloud migration, cost optimization, support, and fully managed services which helps them to move faster and scale with lower IT costs. i2k2 Networks offers a complete range of cutting-edge solution that drives the Internet-powered business modules. We excel in:

  - Managed IT Services

  - Dedicated Web Servers Hosting

  - Cloud Solutions

  - Email Solutions

  - Enterprise Services

  - Round the clock Technical Support

   https://www.i2k2.com/">https://www.i2k2.com/

   Regards

   Nidhi Kohli

   i2k2 Networks Pvt Ltd.

   AM - Talent Acquisition

• DevOps Pre Sales Consultant

Ashnik

Established in 2009, Ashnik is a leading open source solutions and consulting company in South East Asia and India, headquartered in Singapore. We enable digital transformation for large enterprises through our design, architecting, and solution skills. Over 100 large enterprises in the region have acknowledged our expertise in delivering solutions using key open source technologies. Our offerings form critical part of Digital transformation, Big Data platform, Cloud and Web acceleration and IT modernization. We represent EDB, Pentaho, Docker, Couchbase, MongoDB, Elastic, NGINX, Sysdig, Redis Labs, Confluent, and HashiCorp as their key partners in the region. Our team members bring decades of experience in delivering confidence to enterprises in adopting open source software and are known for their thought leadership.

For more details, kindly visit www.ashnik.com

THE POSITION Ashnik is looking for experienced technology consultant to work in DevOps team in sales function. The primary area of focus will be Microservices, CI/CD pipeline, Docker, Kubernetes, containerization and container security. A person in this role will be responsible for leading technical discussions with customers and partners and helping them arrive at final solution

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own pre-sales or sales engineering responsibility to design, present, deliver technical solution
• Be the point of contact for all technical queries for Sales team and partners
• Build full-fledged solution proposals with details of implementation and scope of work for customers
• Contribute in technical writings through blogs, whitepapers, solution demos
• Make presentations at events and participate in events.
• Conduct customer workshops to educate them about features in Docker Enterprise Edition
• Coordinate technical escalations with principal vendor
• Get an understanding of various other components and considerations involved in the areas mentioned above
• Be able to articulate value of technology vendor’s products that Ashnik is partnering with eg. Docker, Sysdig, Hashicorp, Ansible, Jenkins etc.
• Work with partners and sales team for responding to RFPs and tender

QUALIFICATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Engineering or equivalent degree
• Must have at least 8 years of experience in IT industry designing and delivering solutions
• Must have at least 3 years of hand-on experience of Linux and Operating system
• Must have at least 3 years of experience of working in an environment with highly virtualized or cloud based infrastructure
• Must have at least 2 years hands on experience in CI/CD pipeline, micro-services, containerization and kubernetes
• Though coding is not needed in this role, the person should have ability to understand and debug code if required
• Should be able to explain complex solution in simpler ways
  · Should be ready to travel 20-40% in a month
• Should be able to engage with customers to understand the fundamental/driving requirement

DESIRED SKILLS

• Past experience of working with Docker and/or Kubernetes at Scale
• Past experience of working in a DevOps team
• Prior experience in Pre-sales role

Salary: upto 20L

Location: Mumbai

Role Summary

In this role, you will lead the DevOps function at the organisation and work through all

facets of software development: design, prototype, implementation, testing and

documentation.

Responsibilities

• Design, prototype, implement, test and troubleshoot deployment strategies
• BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or equivalent. MS or higher degree
• preferred.
• Design continuous integration and delivery pipelines using latest tools and platformsv
• Demonstrated understanding and hands-on experience in Kubernetes, K8s-Ingress,
• Docker, AWS EC2, VPC, Route53, ELB, RDS, MongoDB, Helm, Rancher, Jenkins,
• VPN, GKE.
• Create high level deployment design (HLSD) documents and outline software solutions
• Strong DevOps Management experience with focus on server-side development and
• database design
• Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
• Strong understanding of web technologies, web services, communication protocols,
• (REST, SOAP API’s) and a proven track record in developing communication between
• desktop applications and web services
• Knowledge of Agile software development methodologies
• Cooperating with the back-end developer in the process of building the RESTful API

Qualification

• Experience with working on code enhancements within a large, complex software
• system
• Create server side deployment primarily in the Cloud, Collaboration space
• 10+ years of relevant experience in developing and managing web/app products.
• Experience with a few of these languages: Shell, Ruby/ JRuby, Python, PowerShell, Java,
• Go
• Hands-on experience in deploying and managing highly scalable cloud applications
• using AWS,Google Cloud
• Assure that all user input is validated before submitting to back-end
• Basic understanding of cloud security and hands on experience in building secure
• systems.
• Prepare accurate implementation task lists / time estimates and deliver assignments as
• per functional specifications, quality standards and project schedulesvvvv

• Administration and Support for Azure DevOps Server/Services
• Migration from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services (SaaS)
• Process Template Customization and Deployment model
• Migration, Upgrade, Monitor, and Maintenance of ADS Instance
• Automation using REST API to build Extensions and Custom Reporting
• Expert in all Modules of Azure DevOps Server/Service (Work Item, SCM/VC, Build, Release, Test, Reporting Management)"

• CICD Orchestration tools and other SCM/VC tools

• Microsoft MCSD Application Lifecycle Management certified
• A bachelor or master degree with a minimum of 6 years relevant work experience in Azure DevOps Server/Services (SaaS)
• Good communication skills
• Strong knowledge of application lifecycle workflows and processes involved in the design, development, deployment, test, and maintenance of software systems in the Windows environment
• Visual Studio and the .NET Framework experience is required "

• Administration and Support for Azure DevOps Server/Services
• Migration from Azure DevOps Server to Azure DevOps Services (SaaS)
• Process Template Customization and Deployment model
• Work with the user community to adopt new features, enable new use cases, and help resolve any issues
• Create customizations and tools to help support the team’s needs (PM, Dev, Test, & Ops)
• Take the lead in the validation of the application.
• Monitor the health of the solution and take proactive steps to ensure reliable availability and performance
• Manage patches and updates for tooling solutions and related hosting environments including the operating system
• Automate the process for Maintenance"

• Provide consultation and review all outgoing critical customer communications.
• Apply DevOps thinking in bringing the development and IT Ops process, people, and tools together within the company in order to increase the speed, efficiency, and quality.
• Perform architecture and security reviews for different projects, work with leads to develop strategy and roadmap for the client requirements. Involve in designing of the overall architecture of the system with another leads/architect.
• Develop and grow engineers in DevOps technology to meet the incoming requirements from the business team.
• Work with senior technical team to bring in new technologies/tools being used within the company. Develop and promote best practices and emerging concepts for DevSecOps and secure CI/CD. Participate in Solution Strategy, innovation areas, and technology roadmap.

Key Skills:

• Deals positively with high levels of uncertainty, ambiguity, and shifting priorities.
• Ability to influence stakeholders as a trusted advisor across all levels, including teams outside of shared services.
• Ability to think outside of the box and be innovative by keeping abreast of new trends, identifying opportunities to bring in change for business benefit.
• Implementing CI (Continuous Integration) and CD (Continuous Deployment). Have Good exposure to CI & Build Management tools like Jenkins Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Maven Gradle and etc
• Deployment and provisioning tools (Chef/Ansible/Terraform/AWS CDK etc)
• Docker Orchestration tools like Kubernetes/Swarm etc
• Good hands-on knowledge of automation scripting Python Shell Ruby etc
• Version Control for Source Code Management (SCM) tool: GIT/Bitbucket and etc
• Expertise in Linux based systems like Unix Linux Ubuntu and also manage security systems Linux file system permission etc
• Container Orchestration tool: Kubernetes Swarm Meso Marathon Docker Writing Docker file Docker compose
• Expertise in managing Cloud resources and good exposure to Docker
• Public/Private/Hybrid cloud: AWS /Microsoft Azure/ Google Cloud Platform etc
• Extensive experience with cloud services elastic capacity administration and cloud deployment and migration.
• Good to have knowledge of tools like Splunk, New Relic, PagerDuty, VictorOps
• Familiarity with Network protocols and elements - TCP/IP HTTP(S) SSL DNS Firewall router load balancers proxy.
• Excellent in creating new and improve existing workflows within the agile software development lifecycle.
• Familiar with incident and change management processes.
• Ability to effectively priorities work with fast-changing requirements.
• Troubleshoot and debug infrastructure Network and operating system issues.
• Resolve complex issues in scenarios like resource consumptions server performance backup strategy Scaling.
• Investigate and perform Root Cause Analysis on users' reported issues and provide a workaround before implementing a final fix.
• Monitor servers and applications to ensure the smooth running of IT Architecture (Applications Services Schedulers Server Performance etc)

Design Skills:

• Interpret and implement the designs of others adhering to standards and guidelines
• Design solutions within their area of expertise using technologies that already exist within Tesco
• Understand the roadmaps for their area of Technology Design secure solutions
• Design solutions that can be consumed in a self-service manner by the engineering teams
• Understand the impact of technologies at an enterprise-scale innovation
• Demonstrate knowledge of the latest technology trends related to Infrastructure
• Understand how Industry trends impact their own area
• identify opportunities to automate work and deliver against them